"Education is the 'raw material' of the knowledge-based society which is at the centre of the new neo-classical growth theory, and most of all at the heart of the evolutionary growth theory, as the innovation capabilities of economies depend on human capital. According to the more recent...

In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...

The paper analyses the recent supply side developments in France, Germany, and Italy by employing a non-parametric approach to estimate potential GDP. The analysis reveals marked heterogeneity among the three countries with regard to the contribution made by labour input. Where similarities can...

To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....

Der konjunkturelle Schwung hat im Laufe des Jahres 2002 ständig abgenommen bis hin zur Stagnation im letzten Quartal. Das reale Bruttoinlandsprodukt (BIP) expandierte im Jahresdurchschnitt um 1,2%, die Arbeitslosenquote erhöhte sich auf 8,7%. Die Konsumentenpreise stiegen um 1,9%. 2003 dürfte...